Bug 67125 – net-dialup/ppp-2.4.2-r5 DEPENDs on insecure libpcap

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-10-11 10:34:00 UTC]

net-dialup/ppp-2.4.2-r5 has a dependency on <=net-libs/libpcap-0.7.2-r1 which is vulnerable to the problem outlined in GLSA 200404-03.

ppp should be patched to work with the newer version of libpcap

[Comment 1 solar (RETIRED) 2004-10-11 12:41:32 UTC]

Jeremy,
I'm reassigning this to net-dialup to fix/port. Add security@ if
to the CC: if you think it needs to be added otherwise letting the
maintainer of the package should handle this.

[Comment 2 solar (RETIRED) 2004-10-11 12:42:38 UTC]

Adding myself to the CC: so I can watch the follow up to this bug.

[Comment 3 Daniel Black (RETIRED) 2004-10-12 04:13:16 UTC]

net-libs/libpcap-0.7.2-r1 provides /usr/include/net/bpf.h which the newer versions don't have.

Copying the /usr/include/net/bpf.h from the old version of libpcap made ppp-2.4.2-r5 compile.

Netmon people - can this be fixed in libpcap?

Note that: qpkg -f -v /usr/include/nessus/net/bpf.h
net-analyzer/nessus-libraries-2.0.12 *

The libpcap version of the header file contains C++ support, BSD support and a lot of other definations.

I don't have much time to work on this. Assignments due on 14th. Feel free to change ppp to work as per my devaway message.

[Comment 4 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2004-10-13 10:02:16 UTC]

why not putting 
 sed -e "s:net/bpf.h:pcap-bpf.h:"
in ppp's ebuild?

[Comment 5 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2004-10-13 11:59:00 UTC]

correction: sed -e 's:net/bpf\.h:pcap-bpf.h:'

[Comment 6 Daniel Black (RETIRED) 2004-10-14 01:07:57 UTC]

Netmons - ignore request - problem solved.

Alin thanks for the fix.

Solved in 2.4.2-r5